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Angola Prison Art: Captivity, Creativity, and Consumerism

Angola Prison Art: Captivity, Creativity, and Consumerism Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola holds a biannual Arts and Crafts Festival featuring handmade work by inmates. In addition to introducing innovations into vernacular prison art forms, Angola inmates find enormous value in creating works that embody or mimic the everyday images and goods so readily available in the outside world. Such work involves layered acts of appropriation, allowing inmates to sustain a social integrity that, to some degree, neutralizes a status tied solely to incarceration. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American Folklore American Folklore Society

Angola Prison Art: Captivity, Creativity, and Consumerism

Journal of American Folklore , Volume 119 (473) – Apr 10, 2006

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American Folklore Society
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Copyright © 2006 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
ISSN
1535-1882
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Abstract

Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola holds a biannual Arts and Crafts Festival featuring handmade work by inmates. In addition to introducing innovations into vernacular prison art forms, Angola inmates find enormous value in creating works that embody or mimic the everyday images and goods so readily available in the outside world. Such work involves layered acts of appropriation, allowing inmates to sustain a social integrity that, to some degree, neutralizes a status tied solely to incarceration.

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Journal of American FolkloreAmerican Folklore Society

Published: Apr 10, 2006

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